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  • noun a polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond three carbons from the beginning

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Examples

  • The confounding push-pull of eating during pregnancy was well illustrated by what happened next: a new round of research emphasizing the importance of nutrients found in seafood, called omega-3 fatty acids, to fetal brain development, and the consequent hazards of eating too little fish during pregnancy.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • We have become deeply familiar with words like antioxidants, polyphenols, saturated fats, omega-3 and calories, but in all this science, we lost our way to the food and our inherent wisdom about what eating means.

    Christina Pirello: Healthy Cookbooks to Start Your New Year Off Right Christina Pirello 2011

  • Eating fish seems impossible if you are interested in staying healthy by getting enough omega-3 fats while avoiding mercury poisoning and destroying the oceans.

    Mark Hyman, MD: Wild Fish? Farmed Fish? What Should We Eat? MD Mark Hyman 2011

  • Eating fish seems impossible if you are interested in staying healthy by getting enough omega-3 fats while avoiding mercury poisoning and destroying the oceans.

    Mark Hyman, MD: Wild Fish? Farmed Fish? What Should We Eat? MD Mark Hyman 2011

  • I would like to note that oil taken from Chinese water snakes is rich in Eicosapentaenoic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid that leading scientists believe can relieve chronic joint pain.

    What's Your Problem? 2009

  • We have become deeply familiar with words like antioxidants, polyphenols, saturated fats, omega-3 and calories, but in all this science, we lost our way to the food and our inherent wisdom about what eating means.

    Christina Pirello: Healthy Cookbooks to Start Your New Year Off Right Christina Pirello 2011

  • We have become deeply familiar with words like antioxidants, polyphenols, saturated fats, omega-3 and calories, but in all this science, we lost our way to the food and our inherent wisdom about what eating means.

    Christina Pirello: Healthy Cookbooks to Start Your New Year Off Right Christina Pirello 2011

  • It adds to a body of mixed research on some potential benefits of the popular omega-3 fatty acid known as DHA, or docosahexaenoic acid.

    Fish Oil Study Finds Little Benefit for Pregnant Women Shirley S. Wang 2010

  • We have become deeply familiar with words like antioxidants, polyphenols, saturated fats, omega-3 and calories, but in all this science, we lost our way to the food and our inherent wisdom about what eating means.

    Christina Pirello: Healthy Cookbooks to Start Your New Year Off Right Christina Pirello 2011

  • The fat of fish contains unsaturated, omega-3 fatty acids, which not only combat the increase in cholesterol in the blood, but even reduce the cholesterol level.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

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